Tag: altered states

Is Your Church Doing “Spiritual Formation”? (Important Reasons Why It Shouldn’t)

Editor’s Note: Lighthouse Trails wrote this report in 2014. Since then, we have watched “Spiritual Formation” explode within the church. After over twenty years of warnings, to our dismay, the issue has not been challenged or even questioned by most…

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Letter to the Editor: Reminder About Study Showing Adverse Effects of Meditation

Dear Lighthouse Trails: This article came up in a feed, and I thought it might be a useful reminder to your readers. It’s a 2017 shallow academic re-run of what LHT has devotedly and thoroughly covered in depth for years!…

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Christian University Graduate Agrees—Celebration of Discipline/Richard Foster Bypass the Cross—As CoD Soon Celebrates 40-Year Anniversary!

Just as Lighthouse Trails was about to issue a post this week about Celebration of Discipline’s (by Richard Foster) 40-year anniversary announcement (that we received by e-mail this month), we received the following e-mail from a Christian university graduate: Three…

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NEW BOOKLET: Teresa of Avila – An Ancient Mystic Who Helped Shape Today’s Spiritual Formation Movement

NEW BOOKLET: Teresa of Avila – An Ancient Mystic Who Helped Shape Today’s Spiritual Formation Movement by Carolyn A. Greene is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklet. The Booklet is 18 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are as…

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Some Contemplative Terms and What they Mean

In order to help others who might be involved with some form of mysticism, it is important to be aware of these terms and understand their basic meanings: Altered State of Consciousness A meditative or drug induced non-ordinary state of…

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A Doctor’s Plea for His Hometown – “Why are the pulpits silent?”

LTRP Note: The following is a letter written by a retired physician who is a Lighthouse Trails reader and a defender of the truth. He is concerned about “progressive Christianity” (i.e., emerging spirituality) being promoted by churches in his hometown. He has submitted articles to his…

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